Man To Be Questioned About Shooting Spree

A Belle Glade man surrendered to authorities Monday claiming to be one of the people sought in last week`s shooting spree that left two men dead and another wounded, officials said.

Edward Charles Cain, 34, told Palm Beach County sheriff`s deputies that he was among the men they were seeking following Thursday night`s shooting of two men inside a convenience store and another man outside a topless bar in the West Palm Beach area.

Vernon Amos, 23, of Belle Glade, has been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, armed robbery and grand theft for his role in the slayings. A second suspect in the case, identified as Albert Spencer, 22, also of Belle Glade, is still being sought by deputies.

Sheriff`s Office spokesman Mike McNamee said Cain turned himself in ``as being the third individual we were looking for.`` He was charged with an unrelated burglary in Belle Glade, McNamee said, but faces no immediate charges in last week`s shooting.

``It`s not something we can say anything about now,`` McNamee said.

A witness said a third man was sitting with the two suspects in a car shortly before the shooting near the topless bar, authorities said.

Amos was charged in the shooting death of Allen McAninch, 29, a clerk in the Mister Grocer store at 252 S. Military Trail in the West Palm Beach area. A customer at the store, Terry Howard, 28, was shot in both arms during the robbery, authorities said.

The robbers fled to the English Pub bar on North Military Trail where Robert Bragman, 29, of Lake Worth, was shot to death when he refused to let them comandeer his truck to continue their escape route, authorities said.

After a long search by law enforcement officials, Amos was discovered hiding inside a wrecked vehicle in a West Palm Beach junk yard, police said.

The third man sought by authorities was thought to have been sitting in the car used by the robbers. After Bragman was shot, two of the suspects ran toward a wooded area. The third man drove away from the scene in the vehicle, authorities said.